Your favorite dating app may be matching you with advertisers

You might be swiping to find love, but on many dating sites the real match you may be making is with advertisers.

A new report from Ghostery, which creates products to detect and block data trackers, reveals which dating sites are tracking your data the most.  

Ghostery examined the eight largest dating sites (only their websites, not their corresponding apps) in the United States — including Tinder, OkCupid, and Match — to find potential trackers. Ghostery's president, Jeremy Tillman, explained in a call with Mashable, that a data tracker is a snippet of code that companies such as Facebook and Amazon can implement onto other sites.  Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/dating-app-data-tracking-ghostery/
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